Lespedeza cuneata(Dum.Cours.) G.Don

Chinese bushclover

WFO wfo-0000185067 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. a Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205532880
Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. b Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205529546
Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. c saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202677217
Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. d Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202781723
Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. e saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202563258
Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by Joe Hastings
fig. f Joe Hastings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203495516
Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. g Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201590641
Lespedeza cuneata, photographed by Jay Pruett
fig. h Jay Pruett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202061802

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Flowering n = 822 observations

Peak flowering in Sep, from 822 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anil chinensis (Vogel) Kuntze
  • Anthyllis cuneata Dum.Cours.
  • Aspalathus cuneata (Dum.Cours.) D.Don
  • Hedysarum sericeum Murray
  • Hedysarum sericeum Thunb.
  • Indigofera chinensis Vogel
  • Lespedeza argyraea Siebold & Zucc.
  • Lespedeza cuneata f. flava Hayashi
  • Lespedeza juncea f. subsessilis (Miq.) A.Pramanik & Thoth.
  • Lespedeza juncea subsp. sericea (Miq.) Steenis
  • Lespedeza juncea var. glabrescens Franch.
  • Lespedeza juncea var. sericea (Miq.) F.B.Forbes & Hemsl.
  • Lespedeza juncea var. serpens (Nakai) H.Ohashi
  • Lespedeza juncea var. subsericea Miq.
  • Lespedeza juncea var. subsessilis Miq.
  • Lespedeza royleana Miq.
  • Lespedeza sericea Miq.
  • Lespedeza sericea f. typica Schindl.
  • Lespedeza sericea var. latifolia Maxim.
  • Lespedeza serpens Nakai

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.